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Dallas police are looking for a handcuffed man who escaped their custody after a weekend shooting in north Oak Cliff.

The shooting was reported about 1:45 a.m. Saturday at an abandoned house in the 100 block of North Cliff Street, a few blocks from the Dallas Zoo. The victim was standing on the porch of the house when a gunman approached and shot him.

The man who was shot, whose name was not released, was taken to Methodist Dallas Medical Center, where he was listed in serious condition, police spokesman DeMarquis Black said.

Officers who responded to the shooting spotted someone matching the suspect’s description walking nearby and tried to stop him. He ran away but was arrested in the 900 block of East Eighth Street.

Police took the arrested man back to the house on Cliff and left him alone in their squad car. While they continued to investigate the shooting, the man escaped through the rear window, and he remains at large.

The suspect is described as a black man, about 4-foot-8 and 90 pounds. He was wearing a blue “hoodie” and blue jeans and has “Kim” tattooed across his neck. Police also said the left side of his head is disfigured.

“We cannot confirm at this time if the individual who escaped is the same individual who shot the complainant,” Black said.

“He had come into our county to supposedly get a ride with another offender,” Pittsburg County Sheriff Joel Kerns said. But before picking Grunsfeld up, the other man called his probation officer.

“The probation officer notified us he was coming, and we took him into custody” Monday, Kerns said, adding that Grunfeld is not known to have committed any crimes in his state.

Grunsfeld, 51, cut his ankle bracelet and left the halfway house on Friday night, said Sgt. Lonny Haschel. However, it’s unclear whether he will go back to the halfway house or head to jail.

“That would be up to the courts to decide,” Haschel said.

DPS added Grunsfeld to its 10 most wanted sex offenders list after his escape last week. His criminal history includes six counts of sexual assault, and DPS said victims accused him of using a stun gun, handcuffs and tear gas during the assaults.

Read more about Grunsfeld’s past crimes in a 1989 DMN story after the jump:

Update: The jury has not yet reached a verdict and will be sequestered overnight at a hotel.

The jurors will return to resume deliberations Saturday morning.

Original post: A Dallas County jury is deliberating the fate of a man who killed his children’s 16-year-old babysitter after she accused him of rape.

Jurors must decide whether Franklin Davis deserves a death sentence or life in prison without parole for killing Shania Gray in September 2012.

To make that determination, jurors must decide whether Davis is a future danger. If the answer is no, Davis, 31, gets a life sentence. If the answer is yes, jurors must consider whether there is anything that would mitigate Davis deserving a life sentence instead of death. If the answer is yes, he gets a life sentence. If the answer is no, Davis is sentenced to death.

Davis killed Shania after she accused him of sexual assaulting her at age 14 when she was babysitting his kids in Mesquite to prevent her from testifying at his trial the following month.

Davis testified during the guilt-innocence phase of his capital murder trial, saying that he picked up Shania from school in Carrollton and killed her because “her lies ruined my life.” He testified that he shot her twice and then stepped on her throat to stop her breathing at an Irving park.

He has repeatedly denied sexually assaulting Shania.

In closing arguments, prosecutors Brandon Birmingham, Russell Wilson, Glen Fitzmartin and Hector Garza said Davis’ past – including the murder of Shania, his repeated assaults of women and his assault of a guard when he escaped while in custody – show he is a future danger.

The case, Birmingham told jurors, is a simple one: “She told on him, so he executed her.”

Birmingham stood before jurors and recounted Davis’ past incidents, telling jurors repeatedly that if they thought Davis would not commit another act of violence, that he would follow the law and the rules, “you would have been wrong.”

Birmingham shook a small brown evidence box with yellow tape, saying “Shackles cannot hold him.” It’s not that Davis is strong enough to break them, he said. “It’s because he’s smart enough to manipulate the people who hold the key.”

Wyatt reminded jurors that Davis grew up in an “American urban nightmare” in violent, drug-ridden area of St. Louis where his mother neglected Davis and his siblings and his grandfather molested them. Davis’ mother was raped and murdered in 1997.

“It would have been better if those children had been raised by wolves,” Wyatt said. “Wolves protect their pups.”

Shania Gray’s mother, Sherry James, sat in the front row during deliberations with her arms crossed. She did not cry but her eyes appeared full of tears.

Before closing arguments, prosecutors called James as their final witness.

She told jurors, her voice full of emotion, that the when Davis escaped the sheriff’s custody while being treated at a hospital in December, she sat in her home, holding her son with the lights out. Her husband was at work.

“I was completely terrified,” she told jurors. She thought “he was going to kill me.”

James said she does not have the words to express how Shania’s death has impacted her.

“A babysitting job cost her her innocence. It cost her her life,” James said. “Her very first babysitting job.”

Shania’s brother is autistic and does not speak. He cannot express his loss or understand what happened to Shania, James said. He just knows she is gone.

Sometimes, James said that she plays videos on her phone of Shania singing for her son.

“He just kisses the phone,” James said. “That was his best friend.”

Prior to the murder, Davis called and texted Shania pretending to be a man named “D” and asked her about the alleged rapes. He testified that he was conducting his own investigation because he did not believe the police or attorneys were properly looking into the case. He recorded several of the phone conversations.

Davis also sent himself fake texts denying the sexual assault allegations that appeared to come from Shania’s phone.

Donald Joshua Greenlee, 38, of Cedar Hill had his sentence reduced from 60 years to eight after a hearing before state District Judge Larry Mitchell.

The April escape wasn’t Greenlee’s first time eluding authorities. He avoided jail for 15 years before being taken into custody in March on a 1997 burglary conviction. By the following month, he had eluded authorities again, but that escape lasted only a day.

In 1997, Greenlee was accused of burglarizing a home while he was on probation for a previous burglary. After he failed to appear in court, he was sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Greenlee fled to Florida, where he remained for eight years. During that time, he worked in construction before moving back to Texas in 2006 and enrolling in classes at Texas Woman’s University in 2010.

He was finally captured in March of this year after TWU police discovered there was a warrant for his arrest.

Police say two civilians helped arrest a man Wednesday after he broke into a Far East Dallas house and tried to escape with an officer hanging out the window of his getaway car.

A witness called police around 5 p.m. Wednesday after seeing Tadarrian Johnson, 33, use a pry bar to get into a house on the 2900 block of Sharpview Lane, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Responding officers said in the affidavit that they saw Johnson leaving from the backyard through a gate.

The affidavit said the officers ordered Johnson to stop, but he got into a 1993 Volvo. One officer grabbed his shirt through the driver’s side window while the other reached in through the passenger window to stop Johnson from putting the car in drive. It didn’t work.

With an officer still hanging out the passenger window, Johnson accelerated down an ally, “crashed into some trees and still continued to drive across 2900 Highland” Road, police said in the affidavit.

The car came to a stop when its front left tire blew out after it hit a curb, the document states. Police said Johnson and the officer both rolled out the driver’s side door.

Johnson got up and ran across Interstate 30. Two Dallasites then took him to the ground and subdued him until the other officer — who ran across the Jim Miller Road overpass — made the arrest, according to the affidavit.

The officer who hung out of the passenger window was taken to Medical City Dallas Hospital, where he was treated for a sprained knee and other scrapes and bruises. Johnson, who was not injured, is now in Dallas County Jail in lieu of $116,000 bail. He has been charged with evading arrest, burglary of a building and aggravated assault of a public servant.

A handcuffed man who fled an Arkansas bail bondsman near the Dallas County jail was quickly apprehended by Dallas police Thursday afternoon.

According to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect police identified as Bobby Ray Blaylock Jr., 34, was not an escaped inmate from the Lew Sterrett Justice Center.

Police say Blaylock fled the Arkansas bail bondsman who was attempting to take him into custody in a parking lot near the Dallas County courthouse around 12:30 p.m. The man assaulted the bondsman and attempted to flee the area around the 200 block of South Riverfront Blvd. Less than 20 minutes later Dallas police took Blaylock into custody.

Update at 6:19 p.m. on May 25, by Tristan Hallman: The Associated Press reports that Rimmer was apprehended Sunday morning at a convenience store near Santo, a small town in Palo Pinto County not far from the Interstate 20 corridor. Rimmer was captured without incident, officials said.

Rimmer is now being held without bond at the Palo Pinto County jail.

Update, 4:21 p.m.: Olney Police Chief Barry Roberts said authorities have focused their attention on the southern part of Olney after Rimmer’s leg shackles, chain, handcuffs and gray T-shirt were found on Springcreek Road and Avenue G.

“They were cut,” Roberts said. “It looks like he used a saw or bolt cutters, but we didn’t find any tools in the area.”

Officers from the Olney Police Department, Young County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Department of Public Safety are conducting the search on foot and with four-wheelers. A tracking dog from the nearby Graham Police Department is also being used.

Authorities spent the morning searching much of North Texas for Rimmer – from Wichita Falls down south to Kaufman County. The restraints were found just after 2 p.m., causing them to narrow their search.

Original, 10:43 a.m.: The search for an escaped prisoner out of Florida has spanned an enormous swath of North Texas this morning — from south of Wichita Falls all the way to Terrell, where police were briefly involved in the manhunt.

But right now, according to Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lonnie Haschel, the search for 33-year-old Michael Rimmer of Bay County, Florida, is concentrated in and around Olney in Young County, just south of Wichita Falls. That’s where the private company transporting Rimmer through Texas lost the prisoner some time around midnight this morning.

“They did a head count in Young County,” says Haschel, referring to the private transport company, “and came up one short.” This was around 1 a.m., say law enforcement officials.

Olney Police Chief Barry Roberts says Rimmer was being transported by USG7, which handles prisoner transfers for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. A person who answered the phone there this morning said he knew nothing about an escape. Says Roberts, it’s his understanding that Rimmer, who has a lengthy criminal record involving everything from possession of meth to assault, was being taken from Louisiana back to Florida when they swung through North Texas.

“That doesn’t make sense to me,” he says. “But you never know with these private transport companies.”

Says Roberts, “When they were in Seymour, in Knox County, he was confirmed to be on the transport van. They came through 114 in Olney, stopped at the Allsup’s convenience store, and got to Terrell when they realized he wasn’t on the van.” Initially authorities believed he Rimmer escaped in Kaufman County.

Roberts says the prisoner, who stands 5-foot-10, was last seen wearing a gray T-shirt, blue-jean shorts and belly chains with cuffs and leg irons. But it’s possible he’s no longer wearing his restraints: “He’s had time to break into a building and find the tools to cut them off,” says Roberts.

Olney police, Young County sheriff’s deputies and DPS troopers are involved in the search, says Roberts.

“And it’ll be a systematic search,” he says. “We’re checking empty and abandoned areas first and working from there.”

Officers are “considering him to be dangerous,” says the chief, because “he has assaulted a peace officer in the past.”